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A weblog about my life as an assistant professor of rhetoric and composition.enCFP: 2014 CCCC-IP Annualhttp://culturecat.net/node/1569
<p>This year is the tenth anniversary of the CCCC-IP Annual, a publication created to fulfill the CCCC Intellectual Property Committee’s charge to keep the Conference on College Composition and Communication’s membership informed on key events and developments in intellectual property that took place over the previous year. Archives can be found at http://www.ncte.org/cccc/committees/ip.</p>
<p>As 2014 nears its end, we are looking back on what happened over the course of the year in copyright legislation, fair use cases, open access publishing, and notable high-profile plagiarism cases. Developments take place regularly that challenge our notions of what these terms mean, and we engage these developments in a timely manner each year in the CCCC-IP Annual . Typically, each article is an explanation of a particular development in intellectual property and analysis of what its implications are for teachers and scholars of rhetoric and composition. For example, the 2012 Annual contains an analysis of the rise of MOOCs written by James Porter. Starting this year, we encourage multiple genres, such as short (1000-1500 words) scholarly articles, listicles (“7 Things Rhetoricians Need to Know about the Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science and Technology (FIRST) Act”), and infographics.</p>
<p>Some articles for the 2014 Annual have already been planned and are in progress; a working table of contents appears below this CFP. In addition to these, we invite submissions on interesting developments in intellectual property. Some ideas include:</p>
<p>* review of Electronic Frontier Foundation white paper published October 27, 2014: "Who Has Your Back: When Copyright and Trademark Bullies Threaten Free Speech" https://www.eff.org/press/releases/which-service-providers-side-users-ip-disputes</p>
<p>* Internet Slowdown campaign: https://www.battleforthenet.com/sept10th/ and https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/43692</p>
<p>* FIRST Act (open access): https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/42765</p>
<p>* Open Source Seed Initiative: https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/42771</p>
<p>Please write to Clancy Ratliff (clancy at louisiana dot edu) if you are interested in contributing to this year’s Annual by writing about one of the above topics or other current events in copyright, authorship, and intellectual property. Manuscripts will be due February 28, 2015 for publication about one week before the CCCC convention.</p>
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<p>Working Table of Contents, 2014 CCCC-IP Annual</p>
<p>Kim Gainer, Sherlock Holmes case</p>
<p>Jeff Galin, Georgia State University fair use case update</p>
<p>Wendy Warren Austin, Slavoj Žižek book review plagiarism case and Nic Pizzolatto "True Detective" plagiarism accusation</p>
<p>Laurie Cubbison, Taylor Swift removes her music from Spotify</p>
<p>Karen Lunsford, California open access law on publicly funded research</p>
<p>Carol Mohrbacher, review of EFF white paper "Unintended Consequences - 16 Years Under the DMCA"</p>
<p>Christopher Gerben, review of EFF white paper "Open Wi-Fi and Copyright: A Primer for Network Operators"</p>
<p>Steven Engel, Montana senator John Walsh plagiarism case</p>
<p>Mike Edwards, review of EFF white paper "Collateral Damages: Why Congress Needs To Fix Copyright Law’s Civil Penalties"</p>
<p>Traci Zimmerman, review of documentary film "The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz": </p>
http://culturecat.net/node/1569#commentsIntellectual PropertyTue, 04 Nov 2014 23:24:24 +0000Clancy1569 at http://culturecat.netWonder Womenhttp://culturecat.net/node/1568
<p>I'm interested to read this book by the president of Barnard College: <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/wonder-women-power-quest-perfection/dp/0374298750">Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection</a></em>. I don't know that it's gotten much play with the news media or the academic media (<em>Inside Higher Ed</em>, etc.), so I want to do what I can to fix that. Debora Spar is a mom of three just like me. Maybe I'll be a college president one day too, heh. </p>
http://culturecat.net/node/1568#commentsBooksFri, 17 Jan 2014 22:11:08 +0000Clancy1568 at http://culturecat.netTop 30 Most Cited in Composition Studieshttp://culturecat.net/node/1567
<p>Thanks to <a href="http://jgoodwin.net">Jonathan</a>'s coding skills, we have a list of the most cited works in composition studies. These are from the journals <em>Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Rhetoric Review, College Composition and Communication,</em> and <em>College English</em>.</p>
<table>
<tr>
<td> Shaughnessy Mina 1977 </td>
<td>87</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Berlin James A 1987 </td>
<td>61</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Burke Kenneth 1969 </td>
<td>57</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Elbow Peter 1973 </td>
<td>55</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Miller Susan 1991 </td>
<td>52</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Bartholomae D 1985 </td>
<td>52</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Bakhtin Mikhail M 1981 </td>
<td>49</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> North Stephen 1987 </td>
<td>47</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Pratt Mary Louise 1991 </td>
<td>46</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Heath Shirley Brice 1983 </td>
<td>45</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Burke Kenneth 1969 </td>
<td>43</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Berlin James A 1984 </td>
<td>42</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Connors Robert 1997 </td>
<td>40</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Burgess Tony 1975 </td>
<td>39</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Berlin James 1988 </td>
<td>38</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Fish Stanley 1980 </td>
<td>38</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Faigley Lester 1992 </td>
<td>35</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Crowley Sharon 1998 </td>
<td>35</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Bizzell Patricia 1982 </td>
<td>34</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Sommers Nancy 1980 </td>
<td>33</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Harris Joseph 1989 </td>
<td>32</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Brandt Deborah 2001 </td>
<td>31</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Graff Gerald 1987 </td>
<td>31</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Ohmann Richard M 1976 </td>
<td>30</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Moffett James 1968 </td>
<td>30</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Burke Kenneth 1966 </td>
<td>29</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Belenky Mary Field 1986 </td>
<td>29</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Freire Paulo 1970 </td>
<td>29</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Kuhn Thomas S 1970 </td>
<td>29</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Bruffee Kenneth A 1984 </td>
<td>28</td>
</tr>
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<td> Eagleton Terry 1983 </td>
<td>28</td>
</tr>
</table>http://culturecat.net/node/1567#commentsComposition PedagogyTue, 25 Jun 2013 14:18:01 +0000Clancy1567 at http://culturecat.netCitational Network Graph: Rhetoric and Compositionhttp://culturecat.net/node/1566
<p>Jonathan has done some more technosorcery, producing this time a <a href="http://jgoodwin.net/rhet-network/cites.html">citational network graph</a> of rhetoric and composition: specifically, the journals <em>College Composition and Communication</em>, <em>Rhetoric Society Quarterly</em>, and <em>Rhetoric Review</em>. <em>JAC</em> wasn't included because it wasn't in the Web of Science database, and <em>College English</em> might go in later; it has so much work in literary studies that we decided to omit it for now. </p>
<p>Much of this is as one would expect. For example, clusters show us that Kenneth Bruffee, John Trimbur, Greg Myers, and Joseph Harris are cited together. They all wrote about collaborative learning at a particular time. </p>
<p>What I find most interesting about this graph, though, is its more-or-less objective illustration of margins and center. I can't even drag Mina Shaughnessy's <em>Errors and Expectations</em> out of the center. Same with Susan Miller's <em>Textual Carnivals</em>, just about everything by James Berlin but especially <em>Rhetoric and Reality: Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1900 - 1985</em>. Patricia Bizzell “Cognition, Convention, and Certainty: What We Need to Know about Writing.” Maxine Hairston "The Winds of Change: Thomas Kuhn and the Revolution in the Teaching of Writing." Peter Elbow <em>Writing Without Teachers</em>. These seem to be cited more than, and linked to more varied types of conversations than, any other works of scholarship in rhetoric and composition. </p>
<p>The margins are very interesting too. I find it kind of sad that Paul Kei Matsuda, Min-Zhan Lu, Bruce Horner, and Suresh Canagarajah are in their own diamond shape, so far outside the network that I didn't even have to drag. An island, Jonathan called it. Shows how little engagement our field has with multilingual writers. </p>
<p>Right next to that island is another little one about authorship and intellectual property. Not too far from that, another one in lavender about community engagement and public writing: Ellen Cushman, Christian Weisser, Bruce Herzberg, <a href="http://www.inventio.us/ccc/1996/10/susan-wells-rogue-cops-and-hea.html">Susan Wells</a>. Above that, an island that's almost all Kenneth Burke. Above that, in orange, an island about genre with Carolyn Miller, Carol Berkenkotter, John Swales, Charles Bazerman. </p>
<p>I'll certainly be sending this to our graduate students who are preparing for comprehensive exams; I imagine it will be immensely helpful to them. I wish I'd had this back then! Anything you notice that interests you or that is remarkable that I didn't pick up on? (I'm sure that one's a yes.)</p>
<p><strong>Edited! <a href="http://jgoodwin.net/rhet-network/cites-ce.html">This version</a> has <em>College English</em> as well.</strong></p>
<p><strong>And <a href="http://jgoodwin.net/rhet-network/cites-slider.html">THIS version</a> has a slider that lets you limit the number of points that show up on the graph.</strong> </p>
http://culturecat.net/node/1566#commentsComposition PedagogyRhetoricFri, 21 Jun 2013 19:02:30 +0000Clancy1566 at http://culturecat.netBrowser for Rhetoric Topicshttp://culturecat.net/node/1565
<p><a href="http://jgoodwin.net">Jonathan</a> has now made a <a href="http://jgoodwin.net/rhet-browser/">browser</a> for rhetoric and composition topics. Click on a truncated topic on the list, and you see the full topic, a graph showing its career in the journals, and a list of the articles most closely associated with it. Each title on the list is a link directly to the article in JSTOR. Preliminary findings:</p>
<p>1. I wouldn't have guessed that the articles most closely associated with <a href="http://jgoodwin.net/rhet-browser/topic22.html"> television film radio tv popular media movie movies news magazine films newspaper magazines sports newspapers entertainment advertising examples pictures</a> would be published between the years of 1950 and 1979, but there you go.</p>
<p>Also, I'm finding so many articles I wouldn't have found otherwise, including Macrorie's "A Literature Without Criticism" from the above list.</p>
<p>2. Another interesting-to-me topic was <a href="http://jgoodwin.net/rhet-browser/topic33.html">attack defense attacks liberal favor conservative defend political responsibility failed attacked standards accused faith claim typical education attacking dismissed</a>, where I found two articles by Donald Lazere that I'd never read. These articles will help me with some work I'm doing right now with agonistic argumentation.</p>
<p>I encourage all of you to poke around in the browser; that's the best way to understand what all the topic modeling fuss is about.</p>
http://culturecat.net/node/1565#commentsComposition PedagogyWed, 13 Feb 2013 16:01:46 +0000Clancy1565 at http://culturecat.netInitial Foray into Topic Modeling for Rhetoric and Compositionhttp://culturecat.net/node/1564
<p>I’m just getting into topic modeling as a research method, thanks to my husband, <a href="http://jgoodwin.net">Jonathan Goodwin</a>. This post represents my first attempt to make sense of it, because its value hasn’t been immediately comprehensible to me. You take a huge corpus of thousands of academic articles (or whatever), and then run a program, which extracts and presents you with groups of words that tend to occur together in the articles (topics). </p>
<p>Jonathan took all of JSTOR’s archives of <em>College English</em>, <em>CCC</em>, <em>Rhetoric Review</em>, <em>Rhetoric Society Quarterly</em>, and <em>JAC</em> and generated 100 topics. Some were coherent, while others seemed more random – though also somewhat interesting; see postscript. Here’s an example of a coherent one: </p>
<p><img alt="lectures belles century lettres historians rise influential reform hugh british campbell scottish southern rhetorical blair late alexander england founded" src="http://culturecat.net/files/BlairTopic.jpg" /> </p>
<p>The program will show you a long list of articles that are associated with the topic. So if you were determined to find absolutely everything having to do with Hugh Blair, this method might give you some articles you wouldn’t have found via a regular JSTOR search. </p>
<p>OK, but besides that, what do you DO with the topics? That has always been the confusing question for me, though I have read some work about topic modeling. I want to write a series of posts explaining what I’ve been doing with the topics, to sort it out for myself. </p>
<p>When Jonathan sent me the list of 100 topics, I went through all of them and selected 53 that I thought were interesting. Mostly these were the ones that were most coherent, like the Blair example. I then pasted them into a document, labeled each one, and grouped them together, like so: </p>
<p>History of Rhetoric</p>
<p>classical cicero ancient rhetoric greek roman oratory orator eloquence quintilian invention renaissance speaking aristotle orators rhetoricians vols modem history </p>
<p>plato sophists gorgias socrates sophistic greek phaedrus ancient platonic greece athenian greeks athens sophist protagoras logos dialogues carolina isocrates </p>
<p>lectures belles century lettres historians rise influential reform hugh british campbell scottish southern rhetorical blair late alexander england founded </p>
<p>philosophical philosophy truth logic philosopher rational doctrine philosophers theory aristotle essays thing writings mere science thinking human mind truths </p>
<p>rhetoric rhetorical persuasion rhetoricians kenneth communication speech burke aristotle classical audience argumentation philosophy discourse persuasive arguments quarterly speaker invention </p>
<p>Now, I haven’t yet looked at the lists of articles associated with these topics, but here’s a list of questions that might be answered by giving these lists a close review:</p>
<p><strong>How has the interest in these topics changed over time?</strong> This seems to be a favored approach among nerds like my husband – visualizations: graphs that plot the trajectory of when people started becoming interested in the topic, when interest peaked, and when it waned. Below is an obligatory graph for the Hugh Blair topic:</p>
<p><img alt="graph showing interest in Hugh Blair and George Campbell in rhetoric and composition journals, late 1930s-late 2000s" src="http://culturecat.net/files/lectures_belles_century_.png" /></p>
<p>Another question I’ve never heard anyone ask, though, is this: <strong>which journals are publishing the most on these topics?</strong> Most of us in rhetoric and composition assume that if you have a manuscript about Cicero, you send it to <em>Rhetoric Society Quarterly</em> or <em>Rhetoric Review</em>, not to <em>College English</em>, because they don’t publish that kind of thing, generally speaking. But are we sure about that? To what extent? I can now do a frequency count of the journals that are represented in the “classical cicero ancient” topic and make a pie chart showing the breakdown. More on that later. </p>
<h4>And Now for Expressivism</h4>
<p>For six of the topics, I wasn’t sure what they meant, but I went ahead and labeled them “Expressivism.” Because expressivism doesn’t have an attendant set of terms, and is misunderstood so often and so profoundly as a theory of writing and teaching philosophy, I was interested in seeing what kinds of articles were listed. As it turns out, most of them were actually about literature, or were works of creative writing. But one of them yielded a few interesting bits: </p>
<p><img alt="obvious hard easily worth expect surely aware mere doubt simple easy leave idea supposed vague avoid bad respect clear" src="http://culturecat.net/files/ExpressivismTopic.jpg" /> </p>
<p>Most of those, of course, are commonly used words, and I’m not really convinced that this is an “expressivist” topic. Still, I did find these articles, among many others:</p>
<p>Richard K. Redfern, "A Brief Lexicon of Jargon: For Those Who Want to Speak and Write Verbosely and Vaguely", <em>College English</em>, 1967<br />
Donald Murray, “Henry James in the Advanced Composition Course,” 1963 <em>College English</em><br />
Peter Elbow, "Exploring My Teaching", <em>College English</em>, 1971<br />
Joseph J. Firebaugh, "On being Unacademic", <em>College English</em>, 1946<br />
Geraldine Hammond, "How Gladly Do We Teach?", <em>College English</em>, 1951<br />
Winfield H. Rogers, "Responsibilities of the English Teacher in the Urban University" 1940 <em>College English</em><br />
J. Mitchell Morse, "Why Write like a College Graduate?" <em>College English</em>, 1970<br />
J. Mitchell Morse, "The Case for Irrelevance", <em>College English</em>, 1968</p>
<p>In reviewing the list of articles associated with this topic, I think I now have a better handle on the sources of the theory some of us call expressivism: certainly it arises from attitudes of respect, concern, and care for students (see Rogers, 1940; Hammond, 1951). But I now see the overlap between expressivist values and the study of literature, as well as the study and practice of creative writing, and descriptive approaches to linguistics*. Those connections should have been obvious, but they weren’t. I can see that as early as 1940, some of the ideas associated with expressivism were in circulation – though certainly some would say that the seeds were planted even earlier, with Fred Newton Scott’s work (see Linda Adler-Kassner’s excellent article “Ownership Revisited” in <em>CCC</em>, 1998). I also think there are many more expressivists than we'd realized, and that a lot of people are/were expressivists but don't/didn't know it. No one is old enough to have witnessed all of this, comprehensively, in real time, and topic modeling is almost like having such a person.</p>
<p>More to come. For now, I’ll say that the best way to grasp the value of topic modeling as a method is to focus on one topic and mine the articles. </p>
<p>* I’m prepared to argue that James Sledd was an expressivist; I think I have a good bit of evidence. </p>
http://culturecat.net/node/1564#commentsComposition PedagogyTue, 12 Feb 2013 20:54:08 +0000Clancy1564 at http://culturecat.netCommon Core State Standards (Grades 11-12) Aligned with the WPA Outcomeshttp://culturecat.net/node/1562
<p>In preparation for my <a href="http://ncte.org/cccc">CCCC</a> presentation, I did the following alignment of the <a href="http://wpacouncil.org/positions/outcomes.html">WPA Outcomes</a> with the <a href="http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/WHST/11-12">Common Core State Standards</a>:</p>
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http://culturecat.net/node/1562#commentsComposition PedagogyTue, 12 Feb 2013 20:02:22 +0000Clancy1562 at http://culturecat.netGraduate Seminar on Authorship and Intellectual Property in Rhetoric and Composition Studieshttp://culturecat.net/node/1561
<p>I'm excited to teach this class this semester! I had to leave a lot out (there's so much to read in this area of scholarship), but these are what I selected in the end. </p>
<p><a title="View English 556 Syllabus on Scribd" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/104433689/English-556-Syllabus" style="margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block; text-decoration: underline;">English 556 Syllabus</a><iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" src="http://www.scribd.com/embeds/104433689/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=scroll&amp;access_key=key-1si4ju1spit5qnc16vgg" data-auto-height="true" data-aspect-ratio="0.772727272727273" scrolling="no" id="doc_2319" width="100%" height="600" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>
http://culturecat.net/node/1561#commentsComposition PedagogyIntellectual PropertyThu, 30 Aug 2012 20:38:07 +0000Clancy1561 at http://culturecat.netFramework and WPA Outcomes Alignedhttp://culturecat.net/node/1559
<p><a href="http://english.louisiana.edu/about-us/firstyearwriting/index.shtml">ULL's writing program</a> takes its outcomes from the <a href="http://wpacouncil.org/positions/outcomes.html">WPA Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition</a>. Disclosure: the program adopted these outcomes in academic year 2005-2006, before I came here, but I have affirmed them. Anyway, I've been thinking for some time about the <a href="http://wpacouncil.org/framework">Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing</a> and how to integrate its eight habits of mind into our writing program's outcomes. The habits of mind are pretty difficult to measure, and in trying to evaluate how well students demonstrate them seems highly problematic; I imagine a lot of personal bias coming into play on teachers' part and a TON of student resistance to having, say, their curiosity or responsibility evaluated. Still, I agree that students with these habits of mind will be much more successful than those without them.</p>
<p>So here's my first shot at integrating the outcomes and the habits. I took our outcomes, matched each one up with one or two habits I thought worked best with it, and then, in the far right column of the table below, I have an explanation of how that habit of mind (or those habits) could be demonstrated in the context of a writing course. </p>
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<p>Obviously, this is only one of many ways these can be matched, and really, each of these outcomes requires all the habits of mind. </p>
http://culturecat.net/node/1559#commentsComposition PedagogyWed, 04 Jul 2012 15:22:17 +0000Clancy1559 at http://culturecat.netTenure and Promotion Portfoliohttp://culturecat.net/node/1558
<p>I've created an <a href="http://culturecat.net/portfolio/">online portfolio</a> of most of the work I've done the last several years for my tenure/promotion case. I have several revisions and additions already planned, but let me know if you have ideas for how to make it better. </p>
http://culturecat.net/node/1558#commentsComposition PedagogyThu, 21 Jun 2012 21:19:34 +0000Clancy1558 at http://culturecat.net